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As a full service presentation design firm, the Presentation Panda 
team works with its clients to transform thoughts, visions, 
strategies, goals, and objectives into a coherent and compelling 
presentation that is customized for each specific audience. Adam 
has been designing professional presentations for 10 years, 
delivering hundreds along the way to senior executives at Fortune 
500 companies, and to large and diverse audiences at marketing 
events around the world. 
Adam and the Presentation Panda team pride themselves on creating 
professional & HIGH-IMPACT presentations that combine:
Adam Noar is the founder and owner of Presentation Panda, a presentation design firm 
that specializes in creating and delivering professional presentations for startups, large 
businesses and individuals. 
“Courage is the willingness to speak the truth about 
what you see and to own what you say.” – Seth Godin
To set the record straight, I didn’t start out as a presentation design expert. No one does. I never even considered myself as 
someone with a designer’s eye for viewing the world. It was only after many years of real world experience and designing 
countless presentations that I began to understand slowly the universal principles of great design. YOU get to bypass the years of 
trial and error I endured in order to understand the WINNING design principles contained in this book. I am going to share with 
you all of the knowledge, tips, and tricks I have gathered over the years in this comprehensive guide to KILLER presentations. By 
the time you finish this eBook, you will know exactly what elements make up a well-designed presentation and how to execute 
accordingly. 
I created this book for YOU. 
Note that this book takes a different approach 
in explaining the art of presentations. After 
reading countless books on presentation 
design, I was shocked to see how BORING and 
NON-ILLUSTRATIVE many of them are. I 
didn’t want you to have that kind of experience 
reading this book. Slides Made Simple was 
designed to reflect how presentations should 
be: SIMPLE & VISUAL.
SIMPLE – My goal is to provide useful tips, 
tricks, and resources for designing great 
presentations. You will not find any fluff or 
complex language in this book.
VISUAL– If I’m preaching about creating 
visually stunning presentations, then it only 
makes sense that I make this book highly visual 
too. This book is filled with relevant images 
and slide examples to help illustrate key points.
This is not your typical boring eBook! There will be tons of slide examples 
and explanations throughout this eBook for your viewing pleasure. 
“Wise men talk because they have something to say; 
fools because they have to say something.” - Plato
Thinking of whipping up a world class presentation in just a few hours? Think again. 
Presentations that are rushed and under great time pressures (i.e., started and 
completed overnight) never turn out that great. Why? The creative process simply takes 
time. As mentioned on the previous pages, there's a whole process of information 
gathering, idea generation, and story creation involved. Then of course, there is all the 
time needed for designing your slides. You also need to be able to give yourself time to 
take breaks if you want QUALITY OUTPUT. Think of creativity similar to a battery that 
slowly loses its juice over time. When you take breaks from your presentation you can 
get a slight charge, and when you get a solid night’s sleep you get an even stronger 
charge. It’s only when your creativity battery has a strong charge that you can think 
outside of the box and present things in a dynamic way. So, make sure to take frequent 
breaks, eat well, exercise, and get a good night’s sleep.
I make a habit of stumbling 
over and collecting great 
presentations from other 
designers on the web. This 
always gives my creativity a 
jumpstart and springboards 
new ideas to mind for my 
projects. There are many 
websites to browse and 
research great presentation 
design work. Two of my 
favorites are Note & Point 
and SlideShare (see Tools 
and Tricks for more on 
these). Sites like these can 
really fuel your imagination 
as to what is possible with 
presentation design and get 
you excited for your new 
presentation project as well.
One of the fundamental problems many 
people face with presentations is that they 
don’t understand the difference between a 
PRESENTATION SLIDE and a 
DOCUMENT. When you give a presentation, 
your audience needs to understand each 
slide’s message in THREE SECONDS or less. 
If your audience can’t quickly understand 
your message they will stop paying attention 
to you. Many people like to fill their slides 
with heavy text because they are afraid they 
will forget what they are going to say. 
Consequently, when you read your slide 
word for word you simply end up putting 
your audience to sleep. People can always 
read your slide faster than you can say it. If 
you are simply reading from the slide then 
there is no reason for you to even be up 
there giving the presentation. People know 
how to read themselves.
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Being able to match EXACT colors from one 
element to another is critical for creating a 
harmonized look for your slide. By using a 
“color grabber” tool such as Color Cop (see 
“Tools and Tricks”), you can copy the exact 
color code from an image, text, etc., and apply 
that color to whatever you want on the slide. 
Color Cop works by identifying and 
representing various hex color code formats. To 
use it, simply drag the eyedropper control to 
any location on the screen and release. The hex 
color code for the selected color will then be 
automatically copied to the Color Cop 
clipboard. 
For example, let’s say you have a really cool 
looking brain diagram where you want to 
highlight specific parts of the brain. Let’s now 
say that you want to apply the EXACT neon 
pink color from the top right section of the 
brain to fill the blank box on the right of the 
slide.
1. Color Cop – A life saver tool for finding out what the exact color code is in any color. I use this all the time for finding 
out what colors are in pictures so I can match the exact colors of the slide to the picture. Note: PowerPoint has now 
developed a similar tool called Eyedropper (Shape Fill – Eyedropper). However, the Eyedropper tool will only pick up 
colors within PowerPoint. In other words, you could not grab the color codes of anything off the web unless you cut and 
pasted it into PowerPoint. I still prefer Color Cop for this reason. 
2. COLOURLovers – Great place for finding exciting user-generated color palettes. With this site, you’ll find custom 
created color palettes from its enthusiastic community of people who have a passion for color. 
3. Design Seeds – Another great resource for finding color palette inspiration.
4. Adobe Color CC – Enables you to generate color themes that can inspire any design project.
5. Color Hunter – Upload a picture and have it pull out the main colors.
6. Colors Scheme Designer – Great designer tool that allows you to create computer generated color palettes.
7. Color Matters – Great resource for understanding the meaning and perceptions of different colors.
8. Oto255 – Ever find a color that is almost perfect, but could be that little bit better? 0to255 is a really neat tool for 
finding variations of a color. You can use it to find lighter and darker colors based on any color.